It promoted the idea that it was ok to play like complete garbage and the only thing that mattered was having an "attitude" and doing edgy stuff as some post-ironic joke with no power, musicianship, or sincerity. A complete regression from all the rock masterpieces that had been made in the decade preceding the "year of punk" in 1977. It was the predecessor to toxic modern day music culture where there's nothing left but making ironic meme songs to get Youtube views. And critics literally enabled all of it due to their worship of snarky ironic postmodernism.
Fuck Patti Smith, fuck the New York Dolls, fuck the Sex Pistols, fuck Henry Rollins, fuck the Ramones, fuck Malcolm McLaren, and fuck Christgau.
Horses is a better album than anything in prog, so fuck off
Joshua Taylor
nice bait thread
Jeremiah Long
Punk killed off way too many genres in the 70s that I like for me to not have a problem with it
but some of it's okay fuck it
Owen Hall
Punk as entire genre is worth about 30 minutes of music which is why the only punk music I listen to is the Ramones s/t
Parker Campbell
>Punk as entire genre is worth about 30 minutes of music which is why Apparently critics feel the same way too since there's only a handful of punk groups they like anyway (The Clash and a couple others), the rest are hated almost as much as Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
Aiden Anderson
ELP were a post-ironic joke band anyway, they were basically an over the top deconstruction of prog and critics were too dense to realize it.
Matthew Scott
absolutely based imagine liking punk
Camden Campbell
yeah that's also why Jethro Tull had an album called Thick as Brick. it was a dig at critics that they never figured out.
